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   Overshoot (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overshot (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Overshooting.]
   1. To shoot over or beyond; to miss; as, “to overshoot a mark; to overshoot the green in golf”. “Not to overshoot his game.”  South.
   
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   2. Hence: To go beyond an intended point or limit; as, “to overshoot the runway in landing an airplane; to overshoot the endpoint in a titration”.
   
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   2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.  Hartle.
   
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   3. To exceed; as, “to overshoot the truth”.  Cowper.
   
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   To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
   
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   Overshot (?), a. From Overshoot, v. t.
   
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   Overshot wheel, a vertical water wheel, the circumference of which is covered with cavities or buckets, and which is turned by water which shoots over the top of it, filling the buckets on the farther side and acting chiefly by its weight.
   
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   Overshot, a. (Zool.) Having the upper teeth projecting beyond the lower; -- said of the jaws of some dogs.
   
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